"Our motto's going to be 'keep our sticks up'," yelled one boat from Team Trouble to another as they sailed into the final race of the semi finals, down one race already. With winds gusting to 40 mph at one point, the final day of sailing at the U.S. Team Racing Championship for the George R. Hinman trophy was wet, wild and thrilling, but Team Trouble proved equal to it to walk off with victory and the Hinman Trophy.

Keeping your sticks up turned out the phrase of the day as sixth ranked Team Trouble won its semi finals against Grey Goose ISAF Team Racing World Champions Cape Cod Whishbone. In another upset, second ranked Silver Panda lost its semi final match to eighth ranked Route 3 Split with Silver Panda capsizing at the start of both of its matches.

With the breezes continuing to build, the final races were to be the last of the day. Team Trouble won the first despite having to do spins earlier on. In race two, Team Trouble once again had to spin and then as a strong puff blew through, capsized. It looked like Route 3 Split had it sewn up and then a second puff blew down one boat from each team. This gave Team Trouble's boat, which had by now righted, a chance to get back in the game. With two boats in the water, the scores were tied. It would all come down to how fast the sailors could right their boats and how they would then tactically manage to finish. All of this is a fairly steady 30 knots of wind with higher gusts.

In the end, Team Trouble formed of Matt ALLEN, Glen OAKS, Timothy CAIN, Brad FUNK, Belleair BLUFFS, Heather PESCATELLO, Anna TUNNICLIFFE and Mark ZAGOL, had the winning combination and are the 2005 U.S. Team Racing Champions. 'Having only squeaked into the Gold Fleet, it's especially satisfying to have won,' said CAIN. 'Especially after then being down 1-0 in the semis,' added captain ALLEN.

All of the competitors had nothing but high praises for this year's hosts, Larchmont Yacht Club who ran this event in conjunction with the Hinman Masters, an enormously complex undertaking chaired by Ed 'Buttons' PADIN. 'When we originally scheduled this regatta for October, we thought we'd have great breezes. Our judgment was sound given the average of 25 knots of wind we sailed in. This made for challenging, and spectacular, team racing.'

Larchmont Yacht Club is also to be congratulated for winning the Commodore George R. Hinman Invitational Masters trophy. Larchmont won all its races in the final round beating out a highly competitive team from Pequot Yacht Club in second and Eastern Yacht Club in third.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Nicolai Sehested (DEN) and his TREFOR Match Racing Team clinched victory today at the Energa Sopot Match Race, Poland, the 10th stage and World Championship Event of the 2015 World Match Racing Tour (WMRT).

There was no stopping current, and five-time ISAF Match Racing World Champion Ian Williams (GBR), GAC Pindar today at the Energa Sopot Match Race as he swiftly dispatched his Quarter Final opponent Joachim Aschenbrenner (DEN) in three straight wins.

The International Sailing Federation (ISAF) continues to address concerns and is taking steps to ensure the health and safety of all athletes who will be competing in the upcoming Aquece Rio, Olympic Test Event and the Rio 2016 Olympic Sailing Competition.

Veteran Polish match racer and America's Cup helmsman Karol Jablonski skilfully played the gusty conditions today to lead the twelve strong field of teams at the end of Day 2 of Qualifying at the 2015 Energa Sopot Match Race.